What's New
New Supplemental Funding Opportunity:
Advancing Precision Medicine
Selected health centers received invitations to apply to the fiscal year (FY) 2018
Advancing Precision Medicine (APM) Supplemental Funding Opportunity. This one-time supplement will support eligible health
centers with demonstrated capacity to participate in the All of Us Research
Program (AoU). Health centers
will use APM funding to support patient enrollment in AoU, including community
outreach and enhancing health information exchange capacity to share patient
data with AoU.
A total of $21 million is available for APM in FY 2018. Selected health centers may
request up to $375,000. Applications are due August 20 at 5:00 p.m. ET. Awards are expected
to be announced in September. Visit the APM Technical Assistance website to learn more.
Reminder:
Service Area Competition (SAC) NOFO Released for January 1 Starts
HRSA released the first FY 2019 SAC
Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), HRSA-19-010, for service areas with a January
1, 2019, project period start date (current project period end date of December
31). Current award recipients should refer to box 6 of the most recent Notice
of Award (NOA) to obtain their project period end date.
Applications are due in Grants.gov by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, August 6, and in HRSA’s Electronic Handbooks
(EHBs) by 5:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday, August 21. Technical assistance materials
are available on the SAC
Technical Assistance website.
Saturday is
World Hepatitis Day
More than 300 million people worldwide are unaware they are living
with viral hepatitis. It is important to identify those who are undiagnosed and
link them to care. Health centers are on the frontlines, serving populations at
increased risk for viral hepatitis and providing comprehensive care to
individuals with multiple chronic conditions, making them uniquely positioned
to screen and treat patients with viral hepatitis. In recognition of World Hepatitis
Day—Saturday, July 28—we encourage screening for viral hepatitis B
and C, as both can become chronic, life-long infections that lead to serious
health problems. For more information on viral hepatitis, please visit the CDC website and
the BPHC
webpage on hepatitis.
Second Webinar
in August for the Service Area Needs Assessment Methodology Prototype
HRSA is
exploring the feasibility of developing a Service Area Needs Assessment
Methodology (SANAM) that would leverage public data sources to calculate an
unmet need score that considers access to primary care services and the health
status of a given ZIP code and/or service area. The SANAM would support the
quantification of need to potentially support HRSA decision-making. A number of
SANAM prototypes have been developed and tested by the MITRE Corporation, and
HRSA is considering options for implementation.
HRSA is hosting a second webinar in August for
participants who were not able to join the first webinar on July 16. The webinar
will describe the SANAM process to date and the prototypes under consideration.
An open feedback and Q&A session will follow. Please watch the PHC Digest
for upcoming webinar time and date information.
Call for
Applications! Sealant Improvement Learning Collaborative
The National
Network for Oral Health Access, a HRSA-funded National
Cooperative Agreement (NCA), is accepting applications from community health centers for a nine-month
Sealant Improvement Learning Collaborative. Participating health centers will
have the opportunity to implement a mini-dashboard of oral health metrics
with an aim to improve sealant rates. Apply
by Wednesday, August 1.
Resources
Patient Safety Leadership Speaker Series:
Caring for Diverse and Communication-Vulnerable Patients
Effective communication is essential for delivering high-quality
health care and maintaining the provider-patient relationship. Potential
vulnerabilities related to communication include low health literacy, language
barriers, and cultural factors.
The third
webinar in ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Leadership Speaker Series, presented
on HRSA’s behalf, will address communication challenges and strategies
clinicians and organizations can implement to improve the quality of care for
communication-vulnerable patients. The webinar will provide references to
relevant resources and tools.
Tuesday,
July 31
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET
Register
here
Diabetes Performance Improvement and Action
Plans – Lessons from Health Centers
All health centers are invited to join an upcoming webinar on
diabetes performance improvement and action planning. Hear from your health
center colleagues how they prepared for the root cause analysis discussion of
their Uniform Data System (UDS) diabetes measure at recent site visits and their
performance improvement action plan. The webinar features presentations from
Lorain County Health & Dentistry (Ohio) and Share Our Selves (California).
It will be particularly beneficial for health centers with operational site
visits and diabetes-targeted technical assistance visits in 2018.
Thursday,
August 2
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
Join
the webinar the day of the session
Call-in: 888-490-2762
Passcode: 758285
Suicide Prevention in Rural Populations
Roundtable Discussion for Health Centers
The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions (CIHS) is hosting an
interactive roundtable discussion on suicide screening and prevention tools and
the management of suicide risk, with a special focus on rural populations.
Nicole Tirone, MSW, Project Coordinator from the nationally recognized Suicide
Prevention Resource Center, will participate in the discussion as an expert
from the field.
Tuesday,
August 7
1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
Join
the webinar the day of the session
Key Components of Integrated Care: Providing
Services to Rural Populations Roundtable Discussion for Health Centers
CIHS is hosting an interactive roundtable discussion on the key
components of behavioral health integration, with a special focus on providing
services to rural populations. Experts from the field will join the discussion:
Jennifer Yturriondobeitia, MSW, Behavioral Health Programs Manager, and Amy
Walters, PhD, Clinical Health Psychologist from St. Luke’s Health Partners.
Tuesday,
August 14
3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Join
the webinar the day of the session
Best Practices for Sustaining Behavioral
Health Integration Models in Health Centers Using Health Information Technology
This CIHS webinar features subject matter experts in health
information technology and technologies that support population health
management and data aggregation from Clinica Family Health and Colorado
Community Managed Care Network. Presenters will share best practices for health
centers in streamlining and sustaining behavioral health workflows and
maximizing their electronic health records to ensure comprehensive and accurate
billing and coding.
Wednesday,
August 22
3:00-4:30 p.m. ET
Join
the webinar the day of the session
Integrating Infectious Disease Prevention and
Treatment into the Opioid Response
The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health’s Office of
HIV/AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy and the HHS Office on Women’s Health
recently sponsored a workshop at
the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to explore the
infectious disease consequences of the opioid crisis and consider opportunities
to better integrate effective responses. View a detailed summary of the
proceedings. It provides expert opinion on the major challenges and
opportunities relating to infectious diseases and can serve as a strategic
action and planning resource for communities.
New
Anti-Trafficking Campaign Materials
The HHS Administration for Children & Families includes the Office
on Trafficking in Persons (OTIP). OTIP has new anti-trafficking
campaign materials available in English and Spanish for
community-based organizations. To request a sample pack of these new materials,
send your name and organization’s mailing address to Flavia.Keenan-Guerra@acf.hhs.gov.
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